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"Willie Mays and his glove: where triples go to die." - Dodgers executive Fresco Thompson. "I bought the Braves for two reasons. To get an autographed baseball without pleading for it and to get good seats." - Ted Turner (Atlanta Braves owner) "When they smile, blood drips off their teeth." - on agents, Ted Turner, Atlanta Braves owner "I'm not very smart. I think I can prove that. Who would accept a job with Marge Schott's dog, Ted Turner, and George Steinbrenner as your boss?" - Peter Ueberroth, commissioner "Good pitching will always beat good hitting and vice versa." - Bob Veal "I played third base like Brooks ... Mel Brooks." - Andy Van Slyke "I couldn't have driven Miss Daisy home today." - Andy Van Slyke On his Earth Day contributions: "I plan to replace all divots in the outfield." - Andy Van Slyke On the difference between being home or on the road: "On the road when you do downstairs for coffee in your underwear, they throw you out of the kitchen." - Andy Van Slyke "They had better defense at Pearl Harbor." - Andy Van Slyke "He (Ozzie Smith) plays like he's on a mini-trampoline or wearing helium kangaroo shorts." - Andy Van Slyke "The biggest adjustments from the minors was learning to spend $45 in meal money." - Andy Van Slyke "I have an alka seltzer bat. You know, plop, plop, fizz, fizz. When pitchers see me walk to the plate, they say 'Oh what a relief it is'" - Andy Van Slyke When asked if he died and could be reincarnated who would he come back as? "My wife. Then I could see how wonderful I am." - Andy Van Slyke "A rabbit didn't have to think to know what to do to dodge a dog...The same kind of instinct told Babe Ruth what to do and where to be." - Sammy Vick "That's the true harbinger of spring, not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of a bat on the ball." - Bill Veeck, 1976
"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats." - Bill Veeck "We used to go to the racetrack after spring training practice in my day. Four of us would chip in fifty cents each to go to the two-dollar window. Yesterday I asked a player how he did at the track. He said 'my horse won.' I said, 'how much did it pay?' The player said, 'no, coach, I didn't bet on the horse, I own it.'" - Mickey Vernon, Yankee coach, 1985 "Who cares how long they are as long as they're over the fence." - Robin Ventura on a tape-measure homer "I don't think my insurance company would think that's a good idea." - Boston's Tim Wakefield, who pitched a complete-game six-hitter a day after being involved in a minor car accident, when it was suggested that he copy the pre-game routine before every start "The shutout doesn't matter. It's the 'W'. You want to have the 'W' instead of the 'L'." - David Wells (NY Yankees' pitcher), following Game 1 of the 1998 ALCS in which Wells had a shutout going into the ninth when he gave up a two-run homer with one out (Yankees beat Indians 7-2). "It was a real cliff-dweller." - Wes Westrum, on an extra-inning game "How baseball is like a church -- Many attend but few understand." - Wes Westrum "In retrospect, you are always looking back." - Jimy Williams (Boston Red Sox manager, 10-1-98) "Just because I have money, does that make me any different from these guys here?" - Mitch "Wild Thing" Williams, on bartending in his bar and grill in Pennsauken, PA "I have an idea what to do about the bullpen, napalm." - Stan Williams (Mariners' pitching coach), after his Mariners relief pitchers blew another lead late in the (1998) season "Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think." - Ted Williams (Boston Red Sox OF) "All I want out of life is when I walk down the street people say 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived'." - Ted Williams "I got a lot of energy ready to be wasted on somebody." - Mookie Wilson
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